Thank you.
In chapter 5, “Promoting Diabetes Prevention and Control”, the report notes that activities related to diabetes have not been fully coordinated at the federal health portfolio level.
I want to mention that, as I'm sure you would appreciate, all chronic diseases share many common risk factors, such as, in the case of diabetes, for example, tobacco and harmful alcohol use, raised blood pressure, hypertension, physical inactivity, raised cholesterol, obesity, unhealthy diet, and raised blood glucose. These could all contribute to various diseases, including diabetes. The Public Health Agency and our government have taken an approach to address all of these risk factors as a way to reduce chronic disease, including diabetes.
Given that obesity, for example, is a known risk factor for diabetes, I'm interested to know why you didn't evaluate or take into consideration the government's efforts to promote weight loss and healthy diet. I bring this up because our government has made significant investments—for example, in nutrition education and awareness-raising, Nutrition North, the child fitness tax credit, Participaction, healthy living partnerships with the private sector—all of which support diabetes prevention and should be taken into account when assessing the government's efforts.
I just want to ask whether you would agree with that.